timing of the mind and the body
written on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
how can you find a kind of timing towards movement that generates a certain kind of beauty? A specific timing that isolates the body from the space, and at the same time makes the space around the body tangible . Such a timing can make you aware of your own percpetion of this all, because you se something magical, mysterious. And ofcourse that’s what i am looking for…
I explore this kind of timing in making a distinction between the rythm of my mind and the rythm of my body. It is never artificial, never totally organic how i move. the movements are alterneating, shifting, in between these two states. Art is to find another organization in nature, than we know, by lettng the capicities of our mind, intermingle with the capaicities of our body. In the mind we can free ourselves from the rythm of the body, but we don’t want to dominate our body by mental control, so at the same time the mind can listen to how the body reacts, interacts. We need a lot of awarenes. Awareness is something different than mind control, awareness also observes the actions of the mind.
yesterday i walked on the pilgramgasse in vienna, very close to my home, and i was thinking about the conceptualists in oru dance practice. they consider themselves as the highest level in art, because they consider the inteligence of the mind as dominant above the expressionim of the bpdy. But a next development is to intermingle the intellignce of the mind with that of the body. Because art isn’t about knowing, its a constant flux between discovering and testing unknown areas.
i am happy, i fly to paris tonight.